Research begun by microbiology professor David Bedwell, Ph.D., identifying nonsense mutations in Cystic Fibrosis patients, has led to a collaboration between UAB and Southern Research with the goal of developing novel drugs for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients with rare genetic mutations.

Preeyam Patel (Kearney lab) is the winner of the 2015 Max D. Cooper Travel Award. She will use this award to help defray the cost of travel to attend the International Congress of Immunology meeting in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2016.